Arthur Watts (barrister)
Sir Arthur Watts,
Legal Adviser to the Foreign Office from 1987 to 1991.[1]
Arthur Watts was educated at
Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst.[1] He read Economics and Law at Downing College, Cambridge.[1] He was called to the Bar by Gray's Inn in 1956,[1] while a junior legal adviser at the Foreign Office. Over the period of some 45 years he served on many British negotiating teams abroad, dealing with a host of matters from Antarctic mineral resources[1]
to human rights.
As part of his role, in 1973, when Britain had just joined the European Economic Community, he spent four years helping to establish the framework for Britain's relations with the various community bodies in Brussels.[2]
Following the disintegration of Yugoslavia in the 1990s Watts became the mediator between the newly established republics as they sought to agree on how to share out the assets, and meet the liabilities, of the old Yugoslavia (1996–2001).[2]
He was a notable legal scholar and published a number of books including Oppenheim's International Law (volume one, 9th edition, with Sir Robert Jennings, 1992),Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h Daniel, Tim (18 September 2011). "Sir Arthur Watts: Foreign Office legal adviser who became a sought-after international lawyer". The Independent. Archived from the original on 14 February 2021. Retrieved 7 February 2021.
- ^ a b "Eritrea, Ethiopia: Sir Arthur Watts Passes Away". Erirea Daily. 4 December 2007. Archived from the original on 18 December 2007.
External links
- Sir Arthur Watts at Cambridge Reception
- Obituary of Sir Arthur Watts (The Daily Telegraph)
- Obituary of Sir Arthur Watts(Eritrea Daily)
- Eritrea/Ethiopia and Arbitral Commission's Members and UNEEBC and 25 UNRIAA 83–195 and Award Series
- Barbados/Trinidad and Tobago Award, Tribunal's President H.E. Stephen M. Schwebel, published in XXVII UNRIAA 147–251 and Cambridge 2010 and PCA Award Series and Key Boundaries
- Analysis of Barbados/Trinidad and Tobago Award and Award's Map and Coalter Lathrop Map and 22 IJMCL 7–60 2007 and NILOS and NILOS Online Papers and NILOS New Website and 39 GWILR pp.573–620 2007 No.3 and Full Text and Catalogue[permanent dead link]
- Kardassopoulos v. Georgia Award and Energy Charter Treaty (ECT) Arbitrations
- Essex Court Chambers
- Sir Franklin Berman KCMG QC Leads Campaign for Sir Arthur Watts Senior Research Fellow in Public International Law of 11 December 2008
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